Usb-imagewriter still depends on hal

[FR. Loïc]

Binary package hint: usb-imagewriter

Hi,

Why to usb-imagewriter still depends on hal?

sudo apt-get install usb-imagewriter
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Les paquets supplémentaires suivants seront installés :
  hal hal-info libhal-storage1 smartdimmer
Paquets suggérés :
  gnome-device-manager
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  hal hal-info libhal-storage1 smartdimmer usb-imagewriter
0 mis à jour, 5 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 575ko dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 3 277ko d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: usb-imagewriter (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 28 15:09:45 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100927)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usb-imagewriter

[Matt Sealey (mwsealey)]

I get the same thing. This is pretty silly. Why does hal depend on smartdimmer, also? This is an nVidia LCD panel tool. Surely HAL should be able to detect if it's there or not, not have it as a forced dependency. I run on VirtualBox and Intel graphics machines so smartdimmer is useless to me.

neko@spinel:/$ sudo apt-get install usb-imagewriter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  hal hal-info libhal-storage1 libhal1 smartdimmer
Suggested packages:
  gnome-device-manager
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hal hal-info libhal-storage1 libhal1 smartdimmer usb-imagewriter